science

A scorpion native to Eastern Mexico may have more than just toxin in its sting. Researchers at Stanford University and in Mexico have found...

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed nanobio-hybrid organisms capable of using airborne carbon dioxide and nitrogen to produce a variety of plastics and...

Two theoretical physicists at the University of California, Davis have a new candidate for dark matter, and a possible way to detect it. They...

Corruption impedes equitable development, destabilizes societies, and undermines the institutions and values of democracy. It is viewed by many as one of the world's...

Scientists may need to rethink their estimates for how many planets outside our solar system could host a rich diversity of life. In a new...

The winter ice on the surface of Antarctica's Weddell Sea occasionally forms an enormous hole. A hole that appeared in 2016 and 2017 drew...

A grape variety still used in wine production in France today can be traced back 900 years to just one ancestral plant, scientists have...

If astronomers want to learn about how supermassive black holes form, they have to start small—really small, astronomically speaking. In fact, a team including University...

Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed new deep learning models that can accurately predict the properties of molecules and crystals....

A mysterious large mass of material has been discovered beneath the largest crater in our solar system—the Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin—and may contain metal...

Climate change could affect the regularity of summer afternoon thunderstorms in some parts of the world, according to new research. A new study in the...